Wresting back control of the Panama Canal, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and exiting from the Paris Agreement were three of the shipping takeaways in the first hours following the inauguration of Donald Trump yesterday as the 47th president of the United States.

The Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Panamanian Arsenio Domínguez, said on Tuesday that the legislation on the re

The neutrality of the nearly 50-mile canal, through which nearly 15,000 ships transit each year, is enshrined in Panama’s Constitution and is enforced by the autonomous Panama Canal Authority.

The Panama Canal will remain Panamanian, the secretary general of the United Nation’s maritime body told AFP on Tuesday, after Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to seize the key waterway.

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama Canal is under threat from US saber rattling once again. More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic ...

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino issued a statement in response, emphasizing the canal will remain under Panama's control. As Trump seeks to regain control of the strategic waterway ...

“The Canal is and will remain Panama’s and its administration will remain under Panamanian control with respect to its permanent neutrality,” said Mulino. Trump’s pledge to take control of ...

President Trump on Monday doubled down on his commitment to expand US territory, promising to take back the Panama Canal. Trump, re-upping a post-election promise, decried the US’s decision to ...

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...

The canal passed into the hands of Panama, which continues to manage this vital waterway, and will continue to do so," said Arsenio Dominguez, head of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). US president-elect Trump, who will return to the White ...

President Donald Trump vowed again that the United States would take back the Panama Canal as he delivered an inauguration

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.On Sunday, Trump threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal ... Maritime Organization (IMO), BIMCO continues to add to its ...